SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22990, 18 March 1938, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Miss E. Lo Huquet, Church Street, Devonport, is visiting friends in Tauranga.

Mrs. W. Gallagher (Wellington). and Miss 0. Miles (England) are at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. I. Davis (Bay of Islands) and Mies E. Wiltshire (Sydney) are at the Central Hotel.

Mrs. IT. T. Mcrritt, of Papatortoe. has returned to Auckland from a visit to the South Island.

Airs. M. Richards, of Tiinaru, who has been staying with her son for some weeks, has returned home.

Mrs. E. A. Scott and Miss Lucy Scott, of Auckland, left by the Awatea on a month's holiday visit to Sydney.

Mrs. Neville Harrison and her small son David are spending a holiday in Rotorua. Mrs. Harrison is staying with her parents.

Miss Barbara Thorno George, of Remuera Road, will leave by the Aorangi next Tuesday for Vancouver, en route to England.

Mrs. L. J. Shrubsall, of Titirangi. who is visiting Rotorua and the Chateau Tongariro, will return to Auckland at tho week-end.

Mrs. J. Kennedy, of Masterton, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Palmerston, at Henderson, leaves to-day on her return to the south.

Mrs. E. Allison, King Edward Parade, Devonport, will leave tomorrow for Wellington, where she will stay with her daughter, Mrs. Wall.

Mrs. W. G. Savegh, of Devonport. left last evening by the limited express for Wellington. Early next week she will fly to Picton and later will tour the South Island.

The Countess of Orford, her daughter Lady Anne Walpole, and Miss Juliet Ridley, who have been at. Turangi, fishing tho Tongariro River, returned to Auckland last evening.

The first meeting this year of the Papatoetoe branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was held recently. Mrs. Fly presided. An address was given by Mrs. Leonnard, of Auckland.

Miss Elva M. Reynolds, a graduate of Auckland University College, who has been working in the Dornakal diocese, South India, for the past two years, arrived bj r the Awatea this week on a year's sick leave. She is staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Reynolds, Te Atanoho, Hurstraere Road. Takapuna.

Members of the Higher Thought Social Club spent an enjoyable evening on Tuesday. Competitions were won bv Mrs. Chatwin and Mrs. Gaughan, while the programme was contributed to by Miss J Halliday, Miss IT. Black and Mrs. P. Black. Music was supplied by Mrs. Goldie, Mrs. McCune, Mr. Neilson and Mr. Tyler, and supper was served by the hostesses, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Deverick and Mrs. Neave.

A return visit to Auckland will be made on March 30 by Mrs. N. K. Edwards, of London. Mrs. Edwards is a prominent member of the headquarters staff of the Toe H League of Women Helpers, is a brilliant speaker, and has travelled widely. She is also a keen member of the Victoria League and of the English-Speaking Union. Mrs. Edwards will leave Auckland by the Monterey on April 4 for Canada, en route for London.

The weekly meeting of the Women's Progress Club of the Higher Thought Temple took place on Wednesday. Mrs. Lewin presiding. Members stood in silence as a tribute to the memory of a member, Mrs. Morten, whose death had occurred. Items were rendered by Mrs. G. Stormont, who was accompanied on the piano by Mrs. H. McCarthy. An address on numerology was given and a paper on Happiness was road by Mrs. Chambers.

Mrs. C. K. Gamble is a passenger on the Monterey en route for Australia u-ith her husband, who has been appointed managing director of the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Limited. Mrs. Gamble is looking forward to the re-establishment of many friendships made during her previous years of residence in Australia. A talented artist, she has lately been studying with some of the foremost portrait painters in the United Sates, and in 1937 she succeeded in winning the coveted gold medal award for portraiture at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York.